زنجیرلمك

Ottoman Turkish

Etymology

From زنجیر (zincir, “chain”) +‎ ـلمك (-lemek, suffix forming infinitives from nouns or adjectives).

Verb

زنجیرلمك • (zincirlemek)

1. (transitive) to enchain, restrain with chains
2. (transitive) to enchain, connect in a chain or series

Descendants

• Turkish: zincirlemek
• → Armenian: զինճիլլէմիշ (zinčillēmiš), զնջիլլամիշ (znǰillamiš)

Further reading

• Çağbayır, Yaşar (2007) “zincirlemek”, in Ötüken Türkçe Sözlük (in Turkish), volume 1, Istanbul: Ötüken Neşriyat, page 5487
• Kélékian, Diran (1911) “زنجیرلمك”, in Dictionnaire turc-français‎^[1], Constantinople: Mihran, page 648
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1687) “Catenare”, in Complementum thesauri linguarum orientalium, seu onomasticum latino-turcico-arabico-persicum, simul idem index verborum lexici turcico-arabico-persici, quod latinâ, germanicâ, aliarumque linguarum adjectâ nomenclatione nuper in lucem editum‎^[2], Vienna, column 161
• Meninski, Franciszek à Mesgnien (1680) “زنجیرلمك”, in Thesaurus linguarum orientalium, Turcicae, Arabicae, Persicae, praecipuas earum opes à Turcis peculiariter usurpatas continens, nimirum Lexicon Turkico-Arabico-Persicum‎^[3], Vienna, column 2472
• Redhouse, James W. (1890) “زنجیرلمك”, in A Turkish and English Lexicon‎^[4], Constantinople: A. H. Boyajian, page 1016